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Labor force, 86 -92
citizen, 88 -89
female, 198 -201
green-card, 89 -91
at Miracle Vegetable Co., 139 -142
recruitment and organization of, 54 -56
undocumented, 91 -92
internal, 15 -16
neoclassical economic approaches, 41 -42
structured and unstructured, 43 -49 passim
Labor process, 20 -26
Marxian theories of, 20 -26, 209 -213
gender and, 171 -172
in lettuce harvesting, 1 -2, 4 -5, 92 -94, 171 -172, 178 -181 passim
and systems of managerial control, 23 -24.
See also Crews
Wrapping machines
Labor supply, 48 -50
in agriculture, 52 -77 passim
employer control over, 62 -64
political constraints on 67 -68.
See also Bracero programs
Labor markets
Undocumented workers
Lettuce, 4
contract production, 82 -83
distribution of, 80
landownership in, 85
producers of, 81 -83
production history of, 86 -87
structure of industry, 80 -86